My good friend Xiaomei works in the south. In late autumn and early winter, she sneezes and has a runny nose every day.

On her way to work every day, when the cold wind blows, her nose will be blocked and she can only breathe through her mouth. After arriving at the company, my nose lost consciousness and my nose ran like a three-year-old child.

After entering the warm office, my nose stopped blocking in an instant, but after half an hour, when my nose adapted to the indoor temperature, my nose began to run endlessly again.

Sleeping at night, wandering around, just can't sleep, because my nose is blocked, I can't breathe normally, so I can only sleep with my mouth open.

When will such a difficult day end?

Xiaomei looks forward to having a holiday every day, because she can go to the north during the holiday. In the north, Xiaomei's headache and rhinitis will magically heal itself.

There are many rhinitis patients who feel the same way as Xiaomei: in the city where they live, the symptoms of rhinitis are very serious. Once they changed to a different climate, rhinitis never seemed to happen. What's even more amazing is that some children still have a runny nose when they go out. When they got on the plane and just flew high into the air, their noses stopped running.

Why is this happening? It can be explained from the following two aspects.

First, it is not that any place is necessarily suitable for the life of rhinitis patients, but sometimes the unbalanced body will be pulled back to a balanced state with the transformation of external natural conditions.

We live in an environment for a long time, and our health will be affected with the characteristics of your living environment. These effects will be more obvious in people with weak constitution, and may also cause some physical imbalance.

Patients with rhinitis who live in the south for a long time, because they live in a humid climate for a long time, the humid living environment will cause imbalance of spleen and stomach transport and transformation. Chinese medicine emphasizes that "the spleen is the source of phlegm and the lung is the storage of phlegm." A large amount of moisture that is not metabolized by the spleen and stomach will hinder the operation of qi-moving, and these phenomena will be manifested in the nose, which is how rhinitis is formed. Most patients with rhinitis in the south contain thick nasal mucus, which is related to their own humidity.

When such a person arrives in the northern city with dry climate, the human body will not be disturbed by environmental dampness, and there is no need to metabolize excess dampness, so that the qi will be unblocked and rhinitis will stop.

Autumn and winter in the north are cold and dry periods. This dryness is mainly cold dryness. Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to "lung essence and dirty", which has the saying that "cold is harmful to the lung when it is cold" and that the lung "likes moistening dryness and hates dryness". Think about it, the lungs are afraid of cold and dryness, and rhinitis caused by a little cold in autumn and winter is not difficult to explain. The characteristics of patients with rhinitis in the north are mostly dry mouth, sneezing and nasal mucosal bleeding.

Rhinitis patients in the north came to the south, and they simply met an oasis in the desert. The moist and warm air just relieves the cold and dryness, so where does rhinitis come from?

Second, why are rhinitis patients cured in the tropics?

This is the root cause of rhinitis. A very important cause of rhinitis is cold and dampness.

Whether you are deficient in qi and blood, spleen is not wet, or lung deficiency, in short, it is because the cold and dampness in your body are too heavy for your body to bear. It forces the body to regard the respiratory tract as a channel to excrete cold and dampness, and this process of excretion is rhinitis.

In warm areas, because the local environment is not easy to produce cold and humidity. If there is less new garbage in the body, the old garbage in the body will have spare capacity to be discharged, so it is not necessary to discharge it through the nose for the time being. But at home, rhinitis will come to you again, because the cold and dampness in the body have not completely disappeared, and once stimulated by the external environment, it will start to accumulate again.

Is there a cure for such painful rhinitis?

In the view of Chinese medicine, there are many ways to treat rhinitis.

One of them is moxibustion, which is suitable for both north and south. The same effect can be achieved by using moxibustion to dispel the cold and dampness in the body. Effective moxibustion can not only control the symptoms of rhinitis, but also reduce the frequency of rhinitis. Observe the physical feelings during and after moxibustion. If you feel uneasy, thirsty or hot, stop using it.

For patients with rhinitis for a long time, it is suggested that family health moxibustion should be hung on the abdomen for a week. Plus Dazhui, Shu Fei, Tang Yin and Xiang Ying. Among them, rotary moxibustion can regulate the function of spleen and stomach, strengthen the body resistance, warm and tonify spleen yang, eliminate dampness and reduce the production of phlegm in lung and spleen. Dazhui and lung fat mainly relieve exterior cold and expel exterior cold. Tang Yin and Xiang Ying points are targeted treatments for rhinitis, which can dredge nasal orifices and enlighten them, and have obvious effects on patients with headache, runny nose and stuffy nose.

The order is Dazhui, Shu Fei, Tang Yin, Xiang Ying, and finally one week.

Massage time is not fixed and can be determined according to the specific situation of children and adults. The interval can be about half an hour, and other acupoints can be controlled at 15 minutes, depending on the condition.

Because patients with rhinitis have many symptoms and are mixed with personal physique, it is suggested that you consult Chinese medicine to understand your physique and choose moxibustion and treatment that suits you. There is no disease that can't be improved at all, only lifestyle that can't be changed.

Finally, remind rhinitis patients of matters needing attention in their lives.

Eat: Reduce the intake of wet and cold food, including fruit before bed, milk before bed, cold food, seafood, etc. Don't eat if you can.

Wear: Children should wear high-necked clothes when going out, and try to protect the Dazhui point at the back of the neck to prevent cold air from irritating the lungs. At the same time, in windy weather, you can wear a hat and a mask to reduce the cold of your head and respiratory tract, which can reduce the frequency of rhinitis attacks.

Live: turn on the air conditioner less in summer, and there are many rhinitis in the air-conditioned room.

Ok: When driving out, you must take care of the windows and reduce the intake of cold air, especially if there are children in the car.